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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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Every fear hides a wish.
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Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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